Quotations from Augustine of Hippo, asking for God's enlightenment. The second quote refers to:

James 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. (World English Bible, public domain.)

Thanks for looking!

trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth :-)

Robert Byrne

rose, 'Love and Peace', little theater rose garden, Raleigh, north carolina

Truer words- never said.

I read several Twain novels when I was a teen, but I became a fan when I read his social commentary in college.

So many quotations are attributed to Twain that are things he never said nor wrote. I made sure mine were all genuine Twainisms. They can be found with many others, researched by Twain Scholar Barbara Schmidt at: www.twainquotes.com/quotesatoz.html

One of my favorite quotes, not in the image above:

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enogh to suit me." - C.S. Lewis

“There is no darkness but ignorance”.

One can only hope that we do not move to the Orwellian sense of light, “to the place where there is no darkness”.

Thank you for your interest. Please do not post spam, irrelevant poetry or prose, or links to your works in the comment section. I will find my own way to your images. All my images are my own original work, under my copyright, with all rights reserved. This means the owner's permission must be sought and obtained, before using any image for ANY purpose.

Copyright infringement is theft.

Quotation fractal, image created with Ultra Fractal.

The title quotation is meant as a humorous play on words. An egg does indeed make a fragile gift. (unless hard boiled, or better still a Faberge egg !)

But it does not really address Janets thought provoking and challenging theme of 'defining beauty'.

So my serious quotation is from the landscape artist John Constable

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." John Constable

Constables quote is a bit of a 'catch all' and I dont claim to have done justice to light shade and perspective.

I was tempted to feature a 'painted lady' butterfly (see my photostream) which most people will regard as beautiful. But decided to remain with the hens egg, even though as Confucius pointed out some will not see it as beautiful.

I think it is. There are eggs with a prettier colour or pattern. But a hens egg still shows a beauty of form, and is one of natures beautiful and practical designs. Wonder and beauty are close kin.

Please zoom in to better see the breathing pores and imperfections.And try not to think of them as ugly

"What greater gift than the love of a cat.." -- Charles Dickens

I think we all can agree with this quote! :-)

Happy Caturday!

Hate to post and run, but I will be gone all day Saturday, so I will comment late.

record shop

{Title quotation - Pam Brown}

At home with my sister-heart,

❤ Gidgette Adagio ❤

For Good

Details:

On Cate - Ball-jointed doll avatar by Coco, hair by Analog Dog, Papillon headpiece by Remarkable Oblivion, choker by Pixel Box, Wayfarer Tunic by Poet's Heart, leggings by Maitreya, Paramour boots by Lassitude & Ennui

On Gidge: Ball-jointed doll avatar by Coco, the rest to follow…

Piano garden credits to follow...

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

- Kahlil Gibran

Quote of Giulio Bassi's pic:The show must go on

The Ohio University Alumni Gateway at the intersection of Court and Union Streets in Athens, Ohio. The Alumni Gateway was a gift of the Class of 1915 to mark the 100th anniversary of the first graduating class of Ohio University, the first graduation in the old Northwest Territory. The quotations on the gate were taken from a Latin inscription found over the main portal of the University of Padua, Italy.

I found these funny quotations and wanted to share these with you. I hope it makes you laugh.Have a wonderful day Everyone!

This is a black and white photograph of the Lighthouse erected on the Northern tip of Skopelos Island, Greece, at Cape Gourouni, viewed from afar. The 46-ft (14-m) high tower is rectangular and made of stone. The lighthouse has got a luminous range of 20 nautical miles; it functioned in 1884 for the first time.

The shot was inspired by the quotation from Virginia Woolf: ❝Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.❞

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I'm stampolina and I love to take photos of stamps. Thanks for visiting this pages on flickr.

I'm neither a typical collector of stamps, nor a stamp dealer. I'm only a stamp photograph. I'm fascinated of the fine close-up structures which are hidden in this small stamp-pictures. Please don't ask of the worth of these stamps - the most ones have a worth of a few cents or still less.

By the way, I wanna say thank you to all flickr users who have sent me stamps! Great! Thank you! Someone sent me 3 or 5 stamps, another one sent me more than 20 stamps in a letter. It's everytime a great surprise for me and I'm everytime happy to get letters with stamps inside from you!

thx, stampolina

For the case you wanna send also stamps - it is possible. (...I'm pretty sure you'll see these stamps on this photostream on flickr :) thx!

stampolina68

Mühlenweg 3/2

3244 Ruprechtshofen

Austria - Europe

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great stamp Austria € 0.55 55c (old austrian stock exchange list anno 1771 of Vienna Stock Exchange; list of quotations, Kurszettel 1771, Course der Obligationen, 行情, биржево́й курс) poste-timbres Autriche sellos Austria selos Briefmarken Österreich porto franco francobolli postzegel selo de correio sello de correo frimaerke postzegel Oostenrijk اتریش تمبر bélyegek Ausztria طوابع النمسا znaczki Austria 55c

في ذكرى مرور مائة عام على احتلال فرنسا للجزائر ، وقف الحاكم الفرنسي في الجزائر يقول : "يـجـب أن نـزيـل الـقرآن العربي من وجودهم..ونقتلع اللسان العربي من ألسنتهم ؛ حتى ننتصر عليهم "

وبعد ذلك بسنوات قلائل :

قـامـت فـرنـسا - من أجل القضاء على القرآن في نفوس شباب الجزائر - بتجربة عملية ؛ فـتم انـتـقاء عـشـرة فـتـيات مسلمات جزائريات ، أدخلتهن الحكومة الفرنسية في المدارس الفرنسية ، ولقنتهن الثـقـافة الفرنسية ، وعلمتهن اللغة الفرنسية ، فأصبحن كالفرنسيات تماماً.

وبـعـد أحـد عـشـر عـاماً مـن الجهود ، هيأت لهن حفلة تخرج رائعة دعي إليها الوزراء والمفكرون والصحفيون...

ولمـا ابـتدأت الحـفلـة ، فـوجـئ الجميع بالفتيات الجزائريات يدخلن بلباسهن الإسلامي الجزائري..

فثارت ثائرة الصحف الفرنسية ، وتساءلت : "ماذا فعلت فرنسا في الجزائر إذن بعد مرور مائة وثمانية وعشرين عاما؟!

أجـاب "لاكـوسـت " وزير المسـتـعمـرات الـفرنـسي :"ماذا أصنع إذا كان القرآن أقوى من فرنسا؟"

المصدر:

مجلة البيان العدد 41

My first try at quotation art. The art and image are mine.

"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

~Andy Warhol

Distorted reflections near the O2. (If you look closely you can just see me on the left of the photo.)

Poetography "bright" - quotation from George Bernard Shaw.

Window Wednesdays - HWW!

7DOS geometry (lines, curves cone...)

on white:

flickriver.com/photos/149829109@N03/34708047441/

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

Candid Street Photography from Edinburgh, Scotland

"Somethimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly." -Neil Gaiman

Film from Venice.

I wondered why this had so many views, and then I found it on tumblr, with thousands of notes. Crazzyyy!

www.jennifersbody.tumblr.com/post/9574992777#notes

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

"Peace cannot exist where justice is not served."

— John Lewis.

Friends School of Atlanta

Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.

20 September 2020.

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For the inner reality of man is a demarcation line between the shadow and the light, a place where the two seas meet; it is the lowest point on the arc of descent and therefore is it capable of gaining all the grades above. With education it can achieve all excellence; devoid of education it will stay on, at the lowest point of imperfection.

-Abdu'l-Baha

This is a Facebook Image I came across and I wanted to share with you. Lol Lol

quotation - Paulo Coelho

Carole Photography - Facebook

I found this and just thought I'd share

I found these funny quotations and wanted to share these with you. I hope it makes you laugh.Have a wonderful day Everyone!

quotation by Dale Carnegie

"Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going." – Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor

brooklyn night lights

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

― Vincent van Gogh

If your eyes are opened you'll see the things worth seeing.

Rumi quotation - Our Daily Challenge

124/366 pictures in 2020

All rights reserved. Please do not use or reproduce this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.

If you get a chance, listen to the Joni Mitchell interview (link below) . . . I just heard it for the first time, and it all came about when I was looking in my archives for a "window" shot to post.

Oh my . . . Fascinating . . . I could relate to soooo much she was saying . . .

Regarding the mural, I don't care for beer, so found another quotation I liked better to go with a "pint" . . .

I LOVE research and serendipity! So here you have a shot I don't even remember taking in Portland, Maine on our 26th anniversary!

I CAN relate to the lobster, the fish, the music and the wonderful collage . . .

"Don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got til its gone

They paved paradise

And put up a parking lot"

~Joni Mitchell~

"I sure do enjoy my ice cream.

And I consider a pint a good start."

~Joshua Malina~

Wonderful links:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIuP7zEVeM

This is a FABULOUS interview on Joni Mitchell!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUu1MvnAecc

Familiar collection of quotation to describe what your feel.

You can download and share image about smile quotations .

Below are some unique quote you can read :

and smiling actually makes those around you cheerier as well. All of this shows that the old sayings actually deliver great...

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